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Tracking vs Watching - What's the difference?

tracking | watching |

As verbs the difference between tracking and watching

is that tracking is present participle of lang=en while watching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tracking and watching

is that tracking is the act by which something is tracked while watching is the act of one who watches.

tracking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is tracked.
  • * 1963 , Abraham C. Keller, The Telling of Tales in Rabelais: Aspects of His Narrative Art
  • In volume, the erudite studies of his language, the trackings of his numerous references to persons, places, and things around him, and the reconstruction of the details of his little-known life have occupied the most attention

    watching

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who watches.
  • * 1819 , John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine (volume 6, page 225)
  • What toils and pains; what cares and watchings ; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?

    Derived terms

    * whale watching